Wet ‘N’ Wild with Rockin’ Fig:

Last week saw some big, pumping 4- to 10-foot surf, right here at our beaches for the Katin Pro/Am Team Challenge.

Jan. 14’s action saw the boys ripping the long lined-up rights and occasional lefts with a heavy drift flowing.

Local surfer Micah Byrne picked off a nice right and got three power-packed moves in to score the highest point ride of the day, a 9.6, and Huntington Beach’s Matt Taylor got a macking, super-heavy tube ride that was death-defying before the pilings.

Last year’s finalist Jesse Evans was ripping too, killing the lefts, and three-time world champ Tom Curren made an appearance everyone was waiting for to add to the day’s excitement.

By Friday, the surf had dropped a tad but was way cleaner, and as the tide dropped, it turned into a barrel fest. In the final, Huntington’s 25-year-old Brad Ettinger, riding for Hurley, grabbed a steep right and pulled in for a deep tube ride, disappearing from view, and then popped out, receiving a perfect 10. On the next wave, Seal Beach’s 22-year-old Chris Waring got a sick barrel, too, and came out slashing off the top but fell and received a 9.53 score to keep it close.

Meanwhile, Ventura’s “Nate Dog,” Nathaniel Curran, was trying to pull some big airs to get back in the hunt, and hot amateur Evan Thompson was having a tough time, catching mostly closeouts.

Team Reef’s Waring found another right and pulled two big slashes off the top to take the lead. Ettinger got a left, slashed a turn, then threw a reverse to make it as close as it gets, but lost, 16.03 to 16.00, with Curran third and Thompson fourth.

Losing in the repro charge heat was Newport Beach’s Andrew Doheny, who placed fifth and also won the most futuristic award, and sixth place was hot up-and-comer Michael Dunphy.

Final team placings saw Reef win with 45 points, last year’s winner Hurley second with 39, Surfline third with 37 and Surfing America with 31 points to round out the top four spots. So again, pumping surf for the Katin. Good karma!

Over in Oz, at the Billabong World Junior Championships at North Narrabeen, local girl Laura Enever had all the right moves to win the gals with a decisive victory over Hawaii’s Alessa Quizon.

Orange County’s Courtney Conlogue lost in the quarterfinals.

In the junior men’s, Reunion Island’s Maxime Huscenot, a 17-year-old regular foot, came back at the end of the final to upset Brazil’s Jadson Andre, who was runner-up last year, too.

Huscenot took out the top-placing surfer from Santa Cruz, Nat Young, in the quarterfinals.

Over and out.

RICK FIGNETTI is a 10-time West Coast champion and a longtime KROQ-FM surfologist. He owns a surf shop on Main Street. You can reach him at (714) 536-1058.